Stand-Alone Python Application

[Serdar Soydemir]

Thank you for the great hint. Further information about stand-alone
applications can be found at
http://starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/distribute.html


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Serdar


-----Original Message-----
From: terry at earthlink.net [mailto:terry at earthlink.net]On Behalf Of Terry
Hancock
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 1:43 AM
To: Serdar Soydemir
Subject: Re: Stand-Alone Python Application


Serdar Soydemir wrote:
> Is there a way to compile python scripts and make a standalone
application?
> As PerlEx does for Perl scripts? Or Python must always be installed before
> running any script, as VB programs depends VB Runtime files?

According to "Learning Python" (p. 138) this can be done by the
"freeze" tool, which converts a python script into bytecodes and
packages the required parts of the interpreter.  The whole thing
is converted to C source code with a makefile which you run to